Ningbo-based Food Company Found Storing and Selling Expired Frozen Papaya

A food company in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, has been fined 1.4 million yuan ($225,481) for storing 32.86 tons of expired papaya products, some of which had been frozen for more than five years, Qianjiang evening news reported on Tuesday [7 July 2015]. The products, confiscated at a storage facility in Jiangbei district in Ningbo, had expired more than two years ago, according to Wangwei, an officer responsible for market supervision in Jiangbei district, Ningbo…Full Article: China Daily July 2015

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At least 25 tons of expired frozen papaya products were sold to a Chinese food processing plant. Additionally, the company sold expired frozen papaya to a Suzhou-based (Jiangsu province) company that produces fruit juice and jams.